An earthquake on the afternoon of May 5 that ... was unharmed but was shocked by the damage to the shrine’s stone torii gate and the roof of a “chozuya” purification fountain.

The earthquake and tsunami had damaged over 4,000 Shinto shrines, small and large, and all had at least one Torii gate. To make things even harder, the coastal region still looked as if the ...

The day before, Hayes allegedly “carved alphabet letters” into a wooden pillar of the entrance – a traditional Japanese torii gate – of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward ...

But now, Kanonji city has something new to offer: the “torii gate in the sky” of the “hongu” main building of Takayajinja shrine that sits atop 404-meter-high Mount Inazumiyama.

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine. The suspect, Steve Lee Hayes, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...